Few could have anticipated what would happen after Grambling’s women’s basketball team lost 51-49 at Prairie View on Jan. 16.

After the loss, Grambling was 3-3 in the SWAC standings and seemingly going nowhere. Prairie View was 2-3 in the conference standings with a glimmer of hope.

Since then, Grambling has not lost a game. The Tigers have ripped off a six-game winning streak to improve to 9-3 in the league. Their surge has moved Grambling into a first-place tie with Alabama State atop the SWAC standings.

Prairie View, meanwhile, has just won one conference game and sits at 3-8 in the league.

With their roles reversed, the two teams meet in Grambling Monday at 5:30 p.m.

GSU comes into the game off of one of its best performances of the season on Saturday in a 64-52 win over previous SWAC leader Texas Southern.

“We were ready for them,’’ GSU coach Freddie Murray told the school’s website. “We knew a lot of what they wanted to do. We knew a lot of what we didn’t do at Texas Southern the first time. So, we wanted to build on that and we were able to do some good things. We started a little slow, they gave us some problems early. But we stayed the course, to what we have been working on this whole week and we came out with a victory.”

Grambling’s surge has also coincided with the emergence of more scorers than just Shakyla Hill and Jazmin Boyd from earlier in the season. Jazmine Torian had 22 points against Texas Southern and Monisha Neal has been a consistent double-figures scorer.

“We have a lot of people on the team that can score and one of the problems that can pose is everyone looking for their shot,’’ Murray said. “We're just trying to get them to play off each other, share the ball more and play for the next person. And we did a great job of playing team basketball tonight."